{"id":78758,"date":"2018-04-07T14:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T18:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78758"},"modified":"2018-04-07T14:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T18:52:40","slug":"lakeith-smith-trades-away-25-years-for-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78758","title":{"rendered":"Lakeith Smith trades away 25 years for 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have sent us links on Fox News about 18-year-old Lakeith Smith who participated in an armed robbery in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/04\/07\/ala-teen-turns-down-25-year-plea-deal-gets-sentenced-to-65-years-instead-and-laughs.html\">Millbrook, Alabama<\/a>. One of his accomplices, 16-year-old A\u2019Donte Washington was killed when he pointed a gun at a police officer. Smith is then charged with his buddy&#8217;s murder along with the other participants, Jhavarske Jackson, 23, Jadarien Hardy, 22 and La\u2019Anthony Washington, 22. Smith was offered a 25 year sentence but rejected the offer and got 65 years instead;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t think Mr. Smith will be smiling long when he gets to prison,\u201d C.J. Robinson, chief assistant district attorney, said. \u201cWe are very pleased with this sentence. Because the sentences are consecutive, it will be a long time before he comes up for even the possibility for parole, at least 20 to 25 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge [Sibley] Reynolds said Smith seemed to show no remorse for his crimes during the trial and did not apologize. He also overhead the teen say, \u201cI don\u2019t have time for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou got plenty of time for this,\u201d Reynolds told Smith before announcing the sentence. \u201cWhen I called the case earlier you said you ain\u2019t got time for this, so I didn\u2019t know if you had time for this now?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good job, Junior.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Claw oiled up the Whiz Wheel for this bumper crop of Name Scrabble contestants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have sent us links on Fox News about 18-year-old Lakeith Smith who participated in &hellip; <a title=\"Lakeith Smith trades away 25 years for 65\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78758\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lakeith Smith trades away 25 years for 65<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}